Slimane Zeghidour is a Chief Editor at TV5, the world’s leading French-speaking television network. He is the director of the TV series ‘Euromed’, examining the cultural links between the North and South rim countries of the Mediterranean. He has also consulted for programming on Algeria and the Middle East for networks including TF1, RF3 and TV Canada.

Assistant Professor at Rutgers University

Tarek Kahlaoui, Ph.D., completed his dissertation on “The Depiction of the Mediterranean in Islamic Cartography” (11th -16th centuries), and currently teaches a course in Islamic art and architecture. He took part in various excavations in Islamic and ancient sites in Tunisia, where he worked on the archival sources and rural landscape of the medieval and early modern history of Jerba, the Tunisian island.

Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University

Dr. Usama Hasan is the Imam of Al-Tawhid Mosque, London, UK. He is also a Senior Lecturer in Computing Science at Middlesex University, a Planetarium Lecturer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, and a researcher for the Islamic Sharia Council, London.

Professor Vitaly Naumkin is the president of the International Center for Strategic and Political Studies, Moscow, and an internationally renowned scholar on the Arab and Muslim worlds from ancient to modern times. He is also known for his work on international relations, strategic studies, Islamic Studies, conflict management and resolution, and Eurasian Studies.